Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor

[TickTockMan]

I don't get why more people don't get that they are hurting the cause and kids more by doing these things.

MAUSTON, Wis. – Mike Taake has taught sex education for 30 years, and he says he knows what doesn't work: just telling kids to wait.

The Mauston High School health teacher has used abstinence-only and comprehensive curriculums, and he said students need all the information they can get about sex to make the best choices. But teaching them about contraceptives could land him and other teachers in court.

Juneau County District Attorney Scott Southworth last month sent a letter to area school districts warning that health teachers who tell students how to put on a condom or take birth-control pills could face criminal charges. The warning has left many teachers, school administrators and parents flabbergasted.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sex_ed_wisconsin

 

[boxerdudeuk]

sorry i gotta ask the question... what the FUCK is going on in the US right now? this struggle between liberalism and the terrifying clutches of the right wing conservative bible thumping weirdos is reaching epic proportions.

 

[Seasoned]

Is this really the 21st century? Let's keep kids from factual information and let nature take it's course.

 

[Corny]

sounds like africa to me. just there they tell them that condoms are bad for your vodoo or so.


(i am of course exaggerating and generalizing , so please africans don't flame me )

 

[BINOWGAYLATER]

well said BOXER - I'm just shaking my head -- it's sooo fucking amazing..
We have the internet - all the porn you want a clck away - we have Wiki and Google and 100 other places to get info -- (thankfully) and the kids know how to use them --- but a teacher can't have a reasonable, rational convo about birth control in school? wtf?/ the parents certainly are NOT doing it --
you can get condoms "off the shelf" and use the self checkout now - and don't have to ask the pharmacist - like in my day !! so how long is it gonna take the bozo's to catch up?? Aren't these these same people that bitch about abortions - and don't wanna do anything to prevent the pregnancies in the first place..

Even the PALIN kid is doing PSA's now on PAUSE before you PLAY !!

 

[Fire]

sounds like africa to me. just there they tell them that condoms are bad for your vodoo or so.

Actually, the preferred term is "juju" or maybe "mojo."

 

[BearBoi]

After the promise: The STD consequences of adolescent virginity pledges
Journal of Adolescent Health 36 (2005) 271–278

http://www.yale.edu/ciqle/PUBLICATIONS/AfterThePromise.pdf


In a nut-shell: a group of high school grads were tracked through their post-secondary education, via interviews and urine samples. Half the group did not make virginity pledges, while the other half did.

At the end of the study, both groups contracted STDs in virtually the same ratio. This study was conducted in a joint partnership between Yale and Columbia.

"Virginity pledges" do not work.

Fun fact: The Bible Belt has the highest rate of divorce, murder and unwed teen pregnancy.

Coincidence?

 

[seven2go]

Where are our resident Wisconsinites?

In HIDING cuz we're so ashamed.......

 

[blackbeltninja]

sounds like africa to me. just there they tell them that condoms are bad for your vodoo or so.


(i am of course exaggerating and generalizing , so please africans don't flame me )

Alas you're not far from the truth. But it's more a case of angering your ancestors than voodoo.

-d-